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Catalysis and decontamination: a versatile tool in the safe and sustainable degradation of chemical warfare agents

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Decontamination is a critical and enabling capability to mitigate and, in the best cases, neutralize the threat of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) to human health and the environment. Well-established conventional decontamination methods will be described and compared to more recent approaches based on catalytic degradation, in the presence of nanostructured catalysts or enzymatic systems, photochemical and photocatalytic abatement and active adsorption on high-performance innovative porous solid materials. Graphical abstract

Source: The European Physical Journal Plus

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05582-5

Authors: Stefano Econdi, Alessandro Caselli, Stefano Marchesi, Fabio Carniato, Chiara Bisio, Matteo Guidotti

Institutions: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche "Giulio Natta", University of Milan, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”

Language: English

Topic: Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,790

Funder: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche